Nasib Arida

Nasib Arida was born in 1887 in Homs and studied at the Russian teachers' college in Nazareth, where he became friends with Mikhail Naimy. He emigrated to New York in 1905, founded a printing house and a magazine that carried the renewal of Arabic literature, and was ruined by it. He lived from trade, then directed the editorial staff of Arabic dailies in New York and worked during the war for an American information office. A founding member of the Pen League in 1920, he also translated from Russian and died in Brooklyn on 25 March 1946.

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• Poetryالأرواح الحائرةNasib Arida · 1946not translated into EnglishLiterature